Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-01
NEWS AND NOTES,

NEWS And NOTES.
Kansas City has been made reserve
city.
Cleveland is said to have shakea
hands with more people than any other.
President.
The Gar Of Russia receives the largest.
salary paid any ruler on the face Of the
earth, and still he is not happy.
G. J. Jones has started town in
Southwestern Kansas called Gill;
probably in the expectation that it will
"get there -
Horace Greeley Douglass is the name.
OF the Postmaster at Plainfield, Ind.
who is reported missing under sus-
picious circumstances. a..
James w. Marshall, who discovered
gold in California and died there in
abject penury, is to have a $4,000
monument erected by the State.
It is stated that Commissioner of
Patents Montgomery will be appointed
Judge of the District Court of the
District of Columbia
Dr.. Edmund j.. James, Professor of
Finance in the University Of Pennysyl-
vania, has declined the Presidency of
the Iowa State University, with double
his present salary. ..
Mrs Kate B. Sherwood, of Toledo,
is to contribute poem to be read at
the unveiling of the statue of Gen. Al
bert Sidney johnson, the ex-confeder-
ate commander, killed at the battle of
Shiloh.
Bob Ford, who killed Jesse James.
is employed as waiter in a Santa Fe
hotel. Bob Little and another member
of the old James gang are also in Santa
Fe, dead broke, and hangers-on about
the saloons.
W. D. MONTE of Louisville, has been
superintendent of Methodist Sunday
school for thirty years, and in all that
time has been absent only five Sundays.
During the last twenty years he has
been absent but one Sunday.
The mother of Oscar Wilde is re-
ported in almost state of penury.
Will not esthetic sons do anything for
their mothers, or are they incapable of
doing anything? Oscar Wilde looked
very healthy when in this country.
Count Robilant, the Italian statesman,
spent over twenty years of his life in
Vienna as Ambassador. He lost his
left arm in battle. He is an illegit-
mate son of King Charles Albert of Sar
dina, and therefore is kind of uncle
to Humbert.
Uncertainty regarding the workings
of the new Interstate Commerce law
have caused merchants dealing in
Chicago to order largely the present
be higher as soon as the measure goes
into effect
Among Queen Victoria's jubilee gifts
is magnificent dinner service of bright
yellow Dresden ware from the German
Emperor. 1t is profusely ornamented
with medallion pictures of notable
events and portraits of famous persons
of her reign. It will contain in all 4So
pieces.
Samuel Fox, a wealthy English land
owner, whose death was announced re-
Gently, was originally a wire-worker.
He acquired the money to purchase his
country seat by discovering that
groovingthe steel of umbrellas would
tighten their weight.
Edmund Yates cables over the inter-
esting superstition that henceforward
earthquake nightgowns will form part
of the wardrobe of ladies visiting the
Riviera, so as if they haye to rush from
their beds into the street they will be
clothed in garments most suitable to
set off their beauty.
A citizen OF Ionia, Mich, while
standing with wet rubbers on an iron
doorstep suddenly lost the power of
walking. He nearly tainted from
terror. thinking he was paralyzed. Upon
discovering that his rubbers were
frozen to the door step he felt better.
Mrs. Lucretia Hardgrove was recent
" found in hut near San Francisco
completely paralyzed and starving.
She says that for the last six weeks she
has been living on toast and water, and
charges that her sister, Mrs. Anderson
of South San Francisco, who is worth
$4,000, would not assist her.
Mr.. Blaine writes to friends in New
York that he has been working harder
in the last two months than at any
period of his life. He has been engaged
in the revision of his speeches and
papers for publication. He proposes
to take rest next month and a run
out to the Indian Territory to pay
visit to his daughter. Mrs. Coppinger.
Mr.. Justice Chitty of London recently
heard case concerning some agricul-
tural implements and house hold furni-
ture. One of the lawyers was very
prosy, and after talking about the i'm
plements until the court was nearly
asleep, said: '.And now, my Lord, /
will address myself to the furniture.
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